Ultra 10 w/ 3D creator displays no video

I recently acquired a used ultra 10 on ebay. During post the caps lock blinks as expected, occasionally becomes solid on and the machine beebs. WIth the 3d creator card, after about 5-10 minutes the monitor kicks on but i get a blank screen (all black). If I use the vga port with the onboard it will turn on for a second or two and then the monitor goes back to sleep.

I don't have a sun monitor. I do have a 13w3 connector from an older sun this hopefully will replace. The old sun works fine with the monitor and its a sparcstation 2!

I'm attempting to use a type 4 keyboard that I know works. I tried holding stop + N at startup and nothing seemed to happen. I do not have a serial cable to look at the output.

I believe the hard drive was wiped before it was shipped. I have a solaris 7 cd, but without any video i can't see to start it up.

Any ideas?

[892 byte] By [laffer1] at [2007-11-26 7:39:02]